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(Aralia Press).

POEMS FOR THE NEW CENTURY.

New York, NY: New York Public Library by the Aralia Press, 1996. 8vo. folded sheets in a clamshell box, paper cover label. unpaginated. Printed in an edition limited to 210 copies. This copy is signed by all of the contributors (Rodney Phillips, Cooper Esteban, Nick Flynn, Caroline Fraser, Deborah Garrison, H. L. Hix, Timothy Liu, Gabriella Mirollo, Greg Williams, David Woo, and Cynthia Zarin). Printed from Lutetia and Romulus Open types on dampened Zerkall paper..... READ MORE about POEMS FOR THE NEW CENTURY

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(Audubon).

FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, EINSTEIN ON THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY AUDUBON'S BIRDS OF AMERICA.

New York: Sotheby's, 1987. 4to. paper wrappers. Unpaginated. A catalogue from an auction of rare books and paintings, including a four-volume set of John James Audubon's BIRDS OF AMERICA from the James Jerome Hill Reference Library in St. Paul, MN. Also included in the auction was the earliest and longest autograph manuscript of Albert Einstein's ON THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, and numerous books featuring exquisite and imposing bindings. Well illustrated, with many color plates. A...... READ MORE about FINE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, EINSTEIN ON THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY AUDUBON'S BIRDS OF AMERICA

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Baker, William and Kenneth Womack (editors).

NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH BOOK-COLLECTORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS. VOLUME 184.

From the Dictionary of Literary Biography: First Series.
Detroit: Gale Research Company, (1997). 4to. cloth. xx, 531 pages. From the Dictionary of Literary Biography: First Series. First edition. A fine copy. Personal and literary biographies of the most important contemporary British book collectors and bibliographers. Well-illustrated with facsimiles of dust jackets, title pages, early drafts of works, photographs, typescripts, book illustrations and much more. With lists of works, suggested readings, references. Includes a cumulative index of previous volumes in this biographical series. READ MORE about NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH BOOK-COLLECTORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS. VOLUME 184

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Order Nr. 130138 THE GLORY OF THE ART OF WRITING: THE CALLIGRAPHIC WORK OF FRANCESCO ALUNNO OF...

Barker, Nicolas.

THE GLORY OF THE ART OF WRITING: THE CALLIGRAPHIC WORK OF FRANCESCO ALUNNO OF FERRARA.

2 VOLUMES
Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2000. 10.6 x 13.75 inches. cloth, regular and oblong quarto, in custom slipcase. 141 pp. (text); 231 pp. (facsimile). 231 color plates. 2 VOLUMES. This work unites the Rothschild Alunno, now in the Cotsen Children's Library, with Alunno's remaining work from four European collections and reconstructs the original appearance of the cartoni by the preeminent 15th century Italian writing master. The cartoni are presented in full color facsimile, with a...... READ MORE about THE GLORY OF THE ART OF WRITING: THE CALLIGRAPHIC WORK OF FRANCESCO ALUNNO OF FERRARA

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Order Nr. 397 ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL TRENDS FROM RUBENS TO DAUMIER AS SHOWN IN BOOK...

Benesch, Otto.

ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL TRENDS FROM RUBENS TO DAUMIER AS SHOWN IN BOOK ILLUSTRATION.

New York: Walker and Co., for Harvard College Library, 1969. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xvi, 94 pages followed by 66 plates. Second printing of these two essays; the first printing took place in 1943. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL TRENDS FROM RUBENS TO DAUMIER AS SHOWN IN BOOK ILLUSTRATION

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Order Nr. 136653 AN EXHIBIT IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF PUBLICATION BY ABRAHAM...

(Bibles).

AN EXHIBIT IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF PUBLICATION BY ABRAHAM OF ORTELIUS OF THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM THE WORLD'S FIRST ATLAS.

Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Public Library, 1970. large 8vo. paper wrappers. 12 pages. Exhibition catalogue. Fine condition. Color frontis map. B/W Portrait of Ortelius Exhibit of Abraham Ortelius at Birmingham Library. Two illus. One color and one b/w Interestingly John Dee learned about Prince Madoc and King Arthur journeys to America from theis great Dutch Mapmaker. This small printed exhibit catalog lists all the maps published pertaining to America by Ortelius with descriptions. READ MORE about AN EXHIBIT IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF PUBLICATION BY ABRAHAM OF ORTELIUS OF...

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(Bibles).

NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPT TRADITIONS.

Chicago: The Joseph Regenstein Library, 1973. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (52) pages. First edition. Exhibition catalogue of 83 manuscripts including many Gospels from the Edgar J. Goodspeed collection at the University of Chicago Library. Printed in red and black throughout. Fine copy. READ MORE about NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPT TRADITIONS

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(Biblio Novel). Chapman, Allen.

TWO BOY PUBLISHERS.

New York: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. 8vo. cloth. 249 pages. A boy's story which tells of two young brothers who become established both as job printers and as publishers of a weekly newspaper. Very good. Previous ownership markings on front free endpaper. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. READ MORE about TWO BOY PUBLISHERS

Price: $30.00 save 50% $15.00 Order nr. 34972

(Biblio Novel). Hugo, Richard.

HITLER DIARIES.

New York: William Morrow and Co., 1983. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (viii), 279 pages. First U.S. edition. A novel based on the sudden appearance of Hitler's diaries. Bookplate of A. (Al) N. Rodway on front free endpaper. Near fine in Near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about HITLER DIARIES

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(Biblio Novel). Moynahan, Julian.

PAIRING OFF.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1969. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 252 pages. First edition. Myles McCormick spends his days "cataloguing books in odd alphabets" in the Boston Free Library. He is quite a smash with the ladies. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bookplate of Al Rodway on front free endpaper. READ MORE about PAIRING OFF

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.3, MARCH 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: B. Hicks on Nancy Drew books, G. Dibert-Himes on the library of Schloss Corvey in Germany, B.G. Henneke on old ship's logbooks, J.G. Schiller on the early publishing history of the Paul Bunyan tales, T. Conway on James Michener, G. and M. Green on the Little Blue Books of the 1920's and 30's, N. Basbanes on..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.1, JAN. 98. BIBLIO changes its subtitle. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Blewster on Oprah Winfrey and books with a second article on book clubs, A. Hanson on Edward Gorey, N.A. Basbanes on Swedish libraries, C. Sell on booksellers along the Oregon coast, M. Angelou on art and censorship, D. Lindley on cuneiform writing, AND MUCH MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.5, MAY 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: S. Cowell on the world's most famous defunct Library (at Alexandria), C. Grossman on the definition of "private press," "limited edition" et al., D. Thompson on George Orwell as a print and radio journalist, plus articles on W.M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, the libraries of the University of Toronto, books on chess, the novels of the preacher..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.7, JULY 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J.S. Murray on 19th-century book canvassers in America, C. Pelayo on the private library of her great-uncle Menéndez Pelayo, G. Menzies on memoirs of aristocratic Russian émigrés, P. Dininny on Kenny's Bookshop in Galway, R. Meador on Orson Well's 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, N. Basbanes on the bookseller P. Juvelis, AND MUCH MORE..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.10, OCT., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Ramsland on Anne Rice, W.H. Scheuerle on the 19th-century color printer George Baxter, G. Turley on the Heritage Book Shop, L. Brumer on the printer Wilsted & Taylor, J. Ashton on the sentencing of the manuscript and rare book thief D. Spiegelman, an international auction report by I. McKay, AND MUCH MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.12, DEC., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J. Fawcett on Thomas Malthus, A.S. Earle on 19th-century illustrated flower books, N.H. Marshall on Clement Moore, and R. Armstrong on the "state of the art book." ALSO: M. Atwood discusses storytelling (excerpt), B. Strubble takes a bibliophile tour of England, and the Bill Gates Library Foundation commits $200 million over the next 5 years to..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1999. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Volume 4, Number 3, March, 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Blewster on Sherman Alexie, K. Vonnegut on himself, C. Grossman on the Limited Editions Club then and now, R. Meador on The Death of a Salesman, K. Jones on a bookstore in W. Texas, D. Thompson on collecting Beatles books, K. Peterson on Hemingway in Cuba, Dodgson's own first edition copy of Alice at..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1999. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Volume 4, Number 2, Feb., 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: S. Stipes on the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs with a bibliography of other such narratives by C.L. Blockson, N.A. Basbanes on Tom Wolfe, I. Ungar and J.P. Ansell on the illuminator and anti-Nazi caricaturist Arthur Szyk, R. Meador on the Wine and Food Library in Ann Arbor, and MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1999. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Volume 4, Number 4. APRIL 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: Grant Menzies on Luce's Women, women who have inspired one-woman plays from the pen of William Luce; Alice L. Tufel on The New York Public Library Berg Collection, offers remarkable accessibility to booklovers wanting a hands-on experience with rarities; Peter Szatmary on Edward Hirsch's poetry that engages head and heart--and his newest prose book. Lorenzo..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS

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BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1997. 4to. paper wrappers. 76 pages. VOLUME 2, NO.7, JULY 97. When is your freezer a book's best friend? What does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the most haunted house in Britain have in common? Who was The Princely Picaroon of Publishing? (And what is a picaroon?) Find out in the new Biblio, which also carries a review of the entertaining USED AND RARE: TRAVELS IN THE BOOK WORLD, and..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA

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BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA.

Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1997. 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages. VOLUME 2, NO.11, NOV., 97. IN THIS ISSUE: 150 years of photo-illustrated books; Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Mary Shelley; history of the Atlantis Press; collecting old stock and bond certificates, AND MUCH MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA

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THE BIBLIOGRAPHER - A JOURNAL OF BOOK-LORE.

Volumes 1-6, the complete set.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881-1884. 4to. original pebbled cloth, gilt on spine. various paginations. Volumes 1-6, the complete set. Hundreds of articles on bookselling, printing, collections, and bibliography. (Ulrich & Kup p.146). This magazine was continued as Book Lore. Ex library with library number on spine and other marks. Boards of volume one are detached, yet present. All volumes have chipping at spine ends, with some minor loss. READ MORE about THE BIBLIOGRAPHER - A JOURNAL OF BOOK-LORE

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(Bibliothèque Nationale).

TROIS CENTS CHEFS-D'OEUVRE EN FAC-SIMILÉ.

Manuscrits, Enluminures, Incunables, Livres Précieux Estampes, Dessins, Cartes Portulans, Médailles et Antiques
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1940. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with color illustration tipped-in on front cover. (iv), iv, 52, (2) pages. Manuscrits, Enluminures, Incunables, Livres Précieux Estampes, Dessins, Cartes Portulans, Médailles et Antiques. Text in French. Near fine. Bibliography of the facsimiles in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Small notes written in pencil on back of front wrapper and front free endpaper. READ MORE about TROIS CENTS CHEFS-D'OEUVRE EN FAC-SIMILÉ

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(Bird & Bull Press). Morris, Henry.

MY LOG & DIARY, 1994-2005.

Interspersed with anecdotes and observations on book collecting, printing, private presses and other bookish matters.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2005. 4to. quarter leather with blue cloth stamped in gilt with the Bird & Bull logo, blue leather spine label, slipcase. 105, (5) pages. Interspersed with anecdotes and observations on book collecting, printing, private presses and other bookish matters. Limited to 160 numbered copies printed by hand on Arches Mould-made paper by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press in Dante types composed by Michael and Winifred Bixler..... READ MORE about MY LOG & DIARY, 1994-2005

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Blumenthal, Joseph.

TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS, A PRINTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH A HALF-CENTURY. 1925-1975.

New York: Frederic C. Beil, (1982). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 153, (3) pages. Illustrated autobiography by this book designer. With information on The Spiral Press. A near fine copy. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS, A PRINTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH A HALF-CENTURY. 1925-1975

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